{"id":263744,"date":"2018-02-09T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=263744"},"modified":"2018-02-09T17:21:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T22:21:41","slug":"everyone-now-agrees-with-me-social-media-destroys-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/02\/09\/everyone-now-agrees-with-me-social-media-destroys-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Now Agrees With Me: Social Media Destroys Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2018\/01\/29\/the-new-york-times-exposes-the-fakery-of-twitter\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-263747\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TwitterNY-Times-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TwitterNY-Times-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TwitterNY-Times.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>RUSH: Oh, and the New York Times is back. Last week or maybe it was two weeks ago, the <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2018\/01\/29\/the-new-york-times-exposes-the-fakery-of-twitter\/\">New York Times had this major expose on how all of the fake bots and things are working at Twitter and al<\/a>l. Remember that, Mr. Snerdley? And we were looking at it, &#8220;Yeah, we knew this a year ago.&#8221; But the reason the Times was focusing on it is because they\u2019re threatened by Twitter and Facebook. People are getting news from Twitter and Facebook and not the New York Times. So the Times was engaging in news stories designed to destroy the credibility.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re back. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/02\/09\/technology\/the-rise-of-a-visual-internet.html\">They\u2019re back with a another humongous story on the real danger of social media<\/a>. The real danger! Besides what it\u2019s doing by creating fake news, it is destroying your child\u2019s psychology. Social media is destroying your child\u2019s mental health, and the worst way they\u2019re doing it is that social media is not using words. Graphics and videos &#8212; pictures and videos &#8212; are now becoming the primary way people are learning things, and the New York Times says &#8212; and they\u2019ve got expert backup &#8212; this is horrible.<\/p>\n<p>Even Silicon Valley is now beginning to recognize the problem. The creators, the inventors of Facebook and Twitter and all these social media sites are now acknowledging that they have created a bunch of addicts, and they\u2019re primarily using pictures and the &#8220;like&#8221; button and the &#8220;retweet&#8221; button and people are becoming addicted. The story starts (summarized), &#8220;Put your phone down. Put it down. Leave it there until you get a message or an alert and don\u2019t touch it.&#8221; How long can you go? How long can you ignore the little alert that tells you you just got a text message? How long can you go?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-263753\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-020918-Cutting-Edge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-020918-Cutting-Edge.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-020918-Cutting-Edge-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is how the story opens trying to get you to prove to yourself &#8212; to understand &#8212; that you are a hopeless addict to your device. The New York Times, I\u2019m telling you: They are on a full-fledged mission here to destroy social media and everything about it, which is prima facie evidence that they think they are really, really being damaged by it. And this piece today&#8230; The story today is comprised of many miniature pieces, and one of the miniature pieces focuses on the dangers inherent and the problems inherent in young people only learning from graphics, charts, videos, still-frame photos.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not good, the absence of words on the internet, social media. Words are falling by the wayside. So the Times is worried that it\u2019s not going to be able to persuade. The Times is worried that people are becoming addicted to things that the New York Times cannot offer, and they are engaged in an onslaught here to discredit it. I find it funny to watch. Many of us here warned people about social media I don\u2019t know how many years ago in all these various ways, primarily the psychological effect of it.<\/p>\n<p>People lying about how great their lives are and then other people seeing it, realizing their lives are nowhere near as magical, becoming depressed and the inferiority complexes; then seeking ways for an exciting life much like those they\u2019re reading about, and they can never find it. So you have lifetimes of misery, dissatisfaction, unhappiness, and so forth. I predicted this many, many moons ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I predicted this many, many moons ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":263812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Everyone Now Agrees With Me: Social Media Destroys Kids - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/02\/09\/everyone-now-agrees-with-me-social-media-destroys-kids\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Everyone Now Agrees With Me: Social Media Destroys Kids - 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